Dear Canada

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Dear Canada is a series of historical novels for children, published by Scholastic Canada and popular in school libraries and classrooms. [1] Each text explores significant events in Canadian history through the eyes of a female child. [1] First published in 2001, they are similar to the Dear America series. The series covers both familiar and little-known topics such as Home Children, the North-West Rebellion, the 1837 Rebellion, and the Ukrainian Canadian internment.

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In September 2010, Scholastic launched a similar series marketed at boys, titled I Am Canada .

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  1. 1 2 Bell, Katherine (2018). "Behind the Blackout Curtains: Female Focalization of Atlantic Canada in the Dear Canada Series of Historical Fiction" . Children's Literature in Education. 49 (2): 161–179. doi:10.1007/s10583-017-9315-9 via EBSCOhost.